A Scottish 'Rock-Ape's' Second World War campaign medal pair and insignia lot: Sergeant William Henderson, Royal Air Force Regiment

- Defence Medal
- War Medal

Sold together with:

- Original medals GVI transmittal box addressed 'Mr. W. Henderson, 6 Dalgety Road, Edinburgh 7'
- Royal Air Force. Cap Badge. King's Crown, gilding metal. Complete with loop fittings
- 2 x Royal Air Force Sergeants woven cloth chevrons. WW2 era. Used
- R.A.F. Regiment pair of cloth woven shoulder titles. Used. WW2 era
- Royal Air Force. Ground Gunner qualification cloth woven badge. Unmounted. WW2 era
- Royal Air Force. Gunner qualification badge. Woven silk panel on cloth. Unmounted. WW2 era
- Royal Air Force. Pair of 'Leading Aircraftman' sleeve insignia. Printed (scarce). Unmounted. WW2 era
- Royal Air Force: A 'Sweetheart' brooch. Gilt and enamel 'Kings Crown' reduced size 'Brevet' (Wings). Retaining hinged pin & clasp
- Original ID Photo. Recipient in Battle Dress wearing R.A.F. Regiment shoulder titles. Reverse pencil inscribed 'Cpl Henderson'

Note: The senders address on reverse of the medal transmittal box is labelled from O i/c Infantry Records, South Methven Street, Perth, Scotland, and suggests that William Henderson had at some time also served with an infantry regiment of the British Army prior to, or after serving with the Royal Air Force Regiment

Royal Air Force Regiment: The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist corps. Founded by Royal Warrant in 1942, the Corps carries out basic security tasks relating to the protection of delivery of air power. Examples of such tasks are non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO), recovery of downed aircrew (joint personnel recovery – JPR), defence of airfields by way of aggressively patrolling and actively seeking out infiltrators in a large area surrounding air-fields. The key tenet of the RAF Regiments role is based around defensive security operations, rather than the Army’s more traditional offensive infantry role, which is to close with and kill the enemy; notwithstanding, this does require active patrolling just outside the Airfield perimeter. In addition the RAF Regiment provides Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) to the British Army in the Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) role, and provides a very small (flight size) commitment to the Special Forces Support Group as Tactical air controllers and some CBRN specialists

1944-1945: During the War the RAF Regiment grew to a force of over 80,000 men. In late June 1944, with the British Army fighting in Normandy where it was sustaining heavy losses and at the same time suffering from a severe shortage of manpower, it was decided to transfer 25,000 officers and men of the RAF Regiment to the army, mostly to the infantry and the Foot Guards, to be retrained

Condition: Mostly GVF and better

Code: 24323